Quote Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan View Post
it's true that white westerners when they come back to their country from the far East will have a reverse culture shock and will have a very hard time cutting the mustard in their home country after being spoiled and red carpeted for decades.

It's like they think they are Joe Louis the brown bomber and after a while they forget about how long they have been away but they keep telling themselves that they can always go back and score a knockout and the next thing they get a bit long in the tooth and a step slow and they go back to their home country and they stare down the barrel of a young Rocky Marciano who knocks them silly and reality hits them.
Cutting the mustard eh? Nice use of an American idiom. Long in the tooth, another more English idiom.....wow look how cultured you are Monsieur

And hey whaddya know a Marciano fan as well....what no Dempsey-Carpentier analogy? I would have certainly thought Tiozzo would rate with a French boxing fan, but Marciano.....so impressive